The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is hosting a series of free Recovery-Oriented Practice webinars.
Sign up for this month’s webinar on Thursday, February 1st, 2018.
How is recovery-oriented practice unique when working with youth? And what types of services would best support youth on their journey towards recovery?
Join us for this webinar on youth recovery-oriented services. This panel discussion will help unpack some of these complex questions to discuss how youth would like to be engaged in and receive recovery-oriented mental health and addiction services.
This webinar will also formally launch the MHCC’s new animated video on youth recovery-oriented services: Food for thought: A youth perspective on recovery-oriented practice
For more information:
Please visit the MHCC website or join the conversation on Twitter
#mhcchopelives

Join Sam Nickels for a fascinating learning tour of El Salvador. This is a “professionals” tour – not for students. We will cover a number of topics: human, legal and women’s rights, access to mental health care, immigration, social services, and the intersection of the educational and prison systems with these topics. We will meet with experts and grassroots advocates across these areas of interest, tour the national psychiatric hospital, and meet with women’s advocacy leaders, education and government officials. We will take time to enjoy El Salvador’s bounty—tourist attractions and eat pupusas off a fire-baked comal. Please spread the word on social media, your websites, and among friends who may be interested in going with you! Our limit is 15 persons. Dates and cost: The 6-day trip (1.5 days travel and 4.5 days intensive learning, March 5-10, 2018) is estimated at $1500, not including airfare (a few discounts are available for extenuating circumstances). Airfare from the U.S. usually runs between $450 - $700. A part of each payment goes to support mental health programs in Central America. This program is being organized by the Center for Health and Human Development and its program Mental Health International (www.chhd.org).

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12 - 13 April 2018

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No More Harm National Conference: Bullying, Harrassing and Discriminating Behaviour Solutions

Harm is physical or psychological damage or injury; something that causes someone or something to be hurt, broken, made less valuable, reputable or successful, etc.
Behaviours and attitudes that are harmful to others in the workplace, school yard, social situation, interpersonal relationship or sporting activity will be discussed with a solution based approach. Harm intervention and behaviour change will be examined at the conference which is in its’ 6th year.
This conference is an ideal platform to exchange ideas and learn more from other professionals, researchers and practitioners that work with individuals, groups and organisations with bullying, harassing or discriminating behaviour challenges and outcomes.

Peer supporters, non-profit leaders, health care providers, health system leaders, thinkers and innovators will connect to share ideas, research, promising practices, successful programs, and tools to grow and strengthen peer support at our 3rd National Conference on Peer Support.
We pleased to welcome keynotes from Sean McCann and Todd Leader, and a wide array of excellent workshops, panels, posters, and presentations from leaders in peer support from across Canada.

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23 - 25 May 2018

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ICIC18 - 18th International Conference on Integrated Care, Utrecht: Value for People and Populations: Investing in Integrated Care

The International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC) in partnership with RIVM and Vilans presents the 18th International conference on Integrated Care “Value for People and Populations: Investing in Integrated Care” to take place in The NBC Congrescentrum, Utrecht, Netherlands 23 – 25 May 2018.
The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care.
Abstract Submission
The scientific committee for this conference has been established from international experts who are leading n the field of integrated care policy and practice, and they are now accepting paper submissions on the science, knowledge and adoption of Integrated Care and specifically relating to the conference themes until Monday, 20 November. The paper should take the form of an abstract of not more than 500 words. Abstract Submission Guidelines are available to download from the conference website.

The 4th annual conference will cover a broad range of topics that will include prevention, treatment, systematic responses, behaviours, mental health and harm reduction in relation to all types of addiction. The program will include emerging trends and the various addictive habits of alcohol and other drugs, gambling, internet, sex, gaming, food, shopping, pyromania, kleptomania to name a few.
The conference promotes and encourages participation from all parts of the sector towards a shared appreciation of what medical, psychosocial and peer based approaches offer, through the experiences of service users, clinicians and researchers alike. Presenters are encouraged to focus on not only what they have discovered but also on how delegates can apply their learnings.

Call for Abstracts and Registration now open. To submit an abstract - https://anzmh.asn.au/conference/submit-an-abstract/. The conference program will challenge, inspire, demonstrate and encourage participants while facilitating discussion. The program will explore mental health access and support, service design and specialised clinically focused programs, physical wellbeing and mental wellness, mentally healthy workplaces, disorder management, strategies and support for wellness of mental health workers, ehealth, suicide and harm prevention. The conference topics are inclusive of citizens from the diverse society we live in from the aged, child and adolescent, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous, CALD and LGBTIQ to examine solutions and share ideas in regard to mental health care.

No matou o Emerge Aotearoa te whiwhi, no matou te honore ki te whakatu i te Hui-a-Ao tekau ma
toru (13th) o Asia Pacific Mental Health i Aotearoa a te tau 2018.
Emerge Aotearoa in partnership with the AsPac forum and key New Zealand organisations is
delighted to be hosting the 13th Biennial Asia Pacific (AsPac) International Mental Health and
Addiction Conference – Healthy Futures - Inspiration, Inclusion and Integration in Auckland,
New Zealand on 31 October to 1 November 2018.
This conference is a forum for sharing national and international models of culturally responsive
services including peer services and profiling how the voices of lived experience have created new
paradigms for addressing mental health and addiction challenges. It will examine zero suicide
and zero coercion strategies, trauma informed responses across health and social services and
showcase ways to strengthen communities including responses to promoting positive mental
health and reducing homelessness across diverse cultural and global contexts.